Book chapter
Literature and the ladder of discourse
Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: The Sea, Vol.19, pp.413-431
Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, 19, Springer Dordrecht and D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1st
1985
Abstract
In Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning, Paul Ricoeur, modifying Strawson, says that „language has reference only when it is used“ and that „the sense, so to speak, is traversed by the referring intention of the speaker.“ I would like to go further and suggest that in much of ordinary language and certainly in literary reading propositional sense is continuously and fundamentally unhinged on a spectrum of infinite meaning shades from taking for granted the sense of the textual surface to its reversal in ironic speech.
Details
- Title
- Literature and the ladder of discourse
- Authors/Creators
- Horst Ruthrof
- Publication Details
- Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: The Sea, Vol.19, pp.413-431
- Series
- Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research; 19
- Publisher
- Springer Dordrecht and D. Reidel Publishing Company; Dordrecht, Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st
- Identifiers
- 991005614922607891
- Copyright
- © 1985 D. Reidel Publishing Company
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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